The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) Congenital Database (CD) is the second largest clinical pediatric and congenital cardiac surgical database in the world and the largest in Europe, where various smaller national or regional databases exist. Despite the dramatic increase in interventional cardiology procedures over recent years, only scattered national or regional databases of such proce...
Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of ECDB participating surgeons and centers, whose CHS data have made this study possible. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.; Background: We have previously shown that the machine learning methodology of optimal classification trees ...
Funding Information: The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the contributions of all ECDB participating surgeons and centers, as the contributions of the data concerning their patients who had surgery with CHD over the years have made this study possible. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.; ...